Thunderstorms (up to 2.75 in (baseball-size) hail) GOES-16 Visible (0.64um) Imagery over Colorado

Explore the effects that time and spatial resolutions can have when interpreting satellite images!

Changeable imagery                          GOES-16 (temporal) imagery

Can you see the (overshooting tops)? (Hint: use the + Pause button)

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Main GOES-16 'explore the effects of time and space' web page

NOTE: This loop contains more than 450 frames! Note also that these images are from the pre-operational testing phase of the GOES-16 ABI instrument.

This applet is Copyright © 2014 by Tom Whittaker.